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Models - Safe Grades · FireCARES
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Safe Grades for fire departments were determined via statistical regression models that predict various types of risk as a function of community attributes.  Click here to learn more.
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    Safe Grades
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                            The <strong>Safe Grade</strong> is a comparison of the Community Risk Score with the Fire Department Performance Score.
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                            A community's set of safe grades represent an assessment of the number of fires, of fire spread, and of civilian and firefighter injury or death based on how well the Fire Department <u>resources</u> (performance score) are deployed to <u>match the level of risks</u> within the commnunity (risk score). There are 3 safe grade comparison categories:
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                                Performance based on <strong>number of fires</strong>
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                                Performance based on <strong>fire spread</strong>
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                                Performance based on <strong>injury and death</strong>
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                            There are five Safe Grades in total. Three Safe Grades compare against similar departments and two compare the individual department on a national level. In all cases, the comparisons are conditioned based on the risk group (low, medium, high) the community falls within for relevent category (see above).  For example, if a department's community risk assessment for fire spread risk is <strong>medium</strong>, then its Safe Grade is determined by a rank order of its Performance Score against all &quot;like&quot; departments that also have a <strong>medium</strong> fire risk. A department’s national Safe Grade would then compare its Performance Score against all departments nation-wide that have a <strong>medium</strong> fire spread risk. Like departments are determined based on NFPA Region and population protected.
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                        <p> Note that the fire risk safe grade comparison is not made on the national level as it is a number estimate and larger communities would be unfairly penalized.</p>
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                            SAFE GRADE SCORES
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                            Each comparison described above is done with similar fire departments as determined by population
                            and risk levels, resulting in departments being ranked and then placed into groups.
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                            <strong>Good:</strong> less than 25% of departments have an equal or better performance score.
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                            <strong>Fair:</strong> 25-75% of departments have a better performance score.
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                            <strong>Poor:</strong> over 75% of departments have an equal or better performance score.
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